#261a18 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	16.89:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.24:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #9a6960 as the text (4.56:1) AAA: use #b48e88 as the text (7.17:1) AA: or shift the background to #858585 (4.58:1) AAA: or shift the background to #a8a8a8 (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #261a18 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

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Magazine Ochre

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Ochre and walnut on unbleached stock, with teal as the counterpoint — a features-section palette with some heat in it.

Editorial Warm Muted

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Trailhead

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Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.

Warm Bold VividOutdoors

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Playground

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Orange, blue and green — the colors of playground equipment; loud, cheerful, obviously for kids.

Bold Playful WarmKids

Fonts for this mood

#261a18 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Editorial fonts →Elegant fonts →Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #261a18

live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

try this prompt

›analyze #261a18 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/261a18-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md